Awardee Profiles

Dr. Pritam Singh is one of the most reputed Management Thought Leaders in India and has stamped his perspective on policy issues that surround both management education and corporate management in India. He currently sits on the Boards of three reputed companies in India like Hero MotoCorp, Godrej etc. As an inspiring role model, Dr. Pritam Singh has spent his entire life tirelessly for awakening students, academia, corporate heads and policy makers to raise their excellence levels.

He is a member of the Empowered Committee by Prime Minister for the selection of “Institute of Eminence”. He was also the Chairman of the Defence Acquisition Committee in the year 2016 for streamlining the process of Defence procurement. He has been on the board of several Public Sector Companies and has worked with more than 200 CEOs in India and abroad as a consultant. When he was director of IIMLucknow, Dr Singh organized retreats for the Vice Chancellors and Deans of Universities for improving governance of universities.

Dr. Pritam Singh turned around the fortunes of IMI-Delhi, MDI Gurgaon and IIM Lucknow and has earned the repute of ‘Midas touch Director’. He also made significant contributions in reorienting the foci of Administrative Staff College of India and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) where he worked as Dean and Senior Professor. He also served as the Chairman of Indira Gandhi Technical University, Vice Chairman of the AICTE committee for accreditation of Management Institutes and was a Member of the Tenth Five Year Plan for the Higher Education.

A thought leader with extraordinary insight, Dr. Singh is the author of ten academically reputed books, three of which are award winning. He has also published over 80 research papers in various national and international journals.